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Democrats expected that the American people would treat Obama's health care law as they have treated other controversial laws and move on.

Clearly, that has not happened in this case, as the American people do not seem to like the clunky, intrusive and expensive law, nor do they like the uni-partisan way in which the Democrats chose to pursue it.

For this reason, the law is threatened on multiple fronts -- politically, legislatively and judicially. These assaults have weakened the case for and the very existence of the new law, and have combined to foster the growing sense that the Obama health care law is unsustainable in its current form.

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